And then Tennessee came in, tying it, followed by Ohio and Louisiana, keeping it tied. I'm not sure the South would be able to block the admission of Indiana and Illinois, given the terms of the Northwest Ordinance, I'm just curious what their reaction would be.
1. It was 9-9 before the admission of Mississippi, Alabama, Indiana, and Illinois.
2. Many had slaves, but had enacted graduated abolition; New Jersey did so in 1804.
Suppose, say, that the population increase in Mississippi and Alabama was much lower than OTL, so that they would not be eligible for statehood in the 1810s. How would the Southern slave states react to proposals to bring Indiana and Illinois into the Union as in OTL as free states, resulting in...
It was a matter of ideology; the Republicans were, ironically, more democratic, and looked to the French Revolution as a good thing. They disliked the British because they perceived them as aristocratic and elitist.
Some interesting implications:
*No Beringia. The Last Glacial Maximum dropped sea levels by about 120 meters, meaning that parts of the Bering Strait would still be underwater. Which means that Paleo-Indians wouldn't start arriving until they had mastered simple boats, about 9000 years BP...